John Creswell: “It is for us life and liberty; it is for you greatness, strength, and prosperity.”

He lived to witness the triumph of his country in its desperate struggle with treason, and to behold all its enemies, either wanderers, like Cain, over the earth, or suppliants for mercy at her feet.

He lived to vote for that grand act of enfranchisement that wiped from the escutcheon of the nation the leprous stain of slavery, and to know that the Constitution of the United States no longer recognized and protected property in man.

Never again will he, answering to the roll-call from this desk, respond for his country and the rights of man.

She was the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and hope, in charity and thought, ready for every good work, herself the example of all she taught.